Scratch

Hmm... Looked around NP, didn't see any spam. You would expect they stay longer because the newer people might not know what to do.

Last edited by Molybdenum (2012-08-19 09:48:54)

soniku3 wrote:

Molybdenum wrote:

Hmm... Looked around NP, didn't see any spam. You would expect they stay longer because the newer people might not know what to do.

I flagged it!

No, I mean if spammers really started spamming NP, we would see more than just 1.

Wes64 wrote:

If they start attacking newest that would be really low. I mean people on the top loved and viewed generally know how to deal with spam much better since they are usually older or more experienced. But imagine if you are 5 years old and you get spambots all over your stuff...

Well, the bots don't even know what newest means...

soniku3 wrote:

This day I got a comment on my recent newst project! with only 5 VIEWS!
[spam removed by modrator]

you know you just reposted commercial spam... exactly what they want you to do, besides for looking at the website...

Last edited by cheddargirl (2012-08-19 20:03:59)

humhumgames wrote:

Spambots spam featured, top _____, and I think curated projects. But... Newest? That's not right.

This particular spambot spams the front page. So it's not much of a surprise that they would spam the Newest projects on the front page.

[edit]Come to think of it, maybe they're trying to find an easy way to spam without being seen. On black hat SEO websites and blogs, they do warn that Scratch is one of those websites where spam is caught easily so they warn spammers to find ways to spam the website without being seen easily. How evil and vile of them.[/edit]

@soniku3: Please don't repost the spam. All that does it increase the chances of search engines picking up the spam on the website, which is what we don't want.

Last edited by cheddargirl (2012-08-19 20:09:52)

cheddargirl wrote:

Come to think of it, maybe they're trying to find an easy way to spam without being seen. On black hat SEO websites and blogs, they do warn that Scratch is one of those websites where spam is caught easily so they warn spammers to find ways to spam the website without being seen easily. How evil and vile of them.

Well, now that we know that spammers can spam in the forums and on projects, I think there aren't that many other places to spam. You can't use tags, because you can't link to a custom website with them, and the Scratch Stats page uses Disqus, which I think is pretty good.

@humhumgames: You can still easily access them. See more >